Repeatedly fired former sports anchor Keith Olbermann took aim at Sage Steele Wednesday after she claimed that ESPN forced her to conduct an interview with Joe Biden that was completely pre-written by her bosses.
Early this week, Steele noted that Disney-owned ESPN not only wrote all the questions she was to ask Biden in her interview but also barred her from asking follow-up questions of the president.
“To the word. Every single question was scripted, gone over dozens of times by many editors and executives. Absolutely. I was on script and was told not to deviate,” Steele said. “It was very much ‘This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups, no follow-ups. Next.’ … This went up to the fourth floor, as we said, where all the bosses, the top executives, the decision makers are, the president of our company, the CEO, where they all…
